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Quotes About Industry

So nowadays hard-minded men with hard muscles and hard hats are relieved from their jobs
~ Tom Robbins
Once they knew she had been working for a doctor, the eye rolling and tooth sucking was enough to make clear their scorn. And nothing Cee remembered—how pleasant she felt upon awakening after Dr. Beau had stuck her with a needle to put her to sleep; how passionate he was about the value of the examinations; how she believed the blood and pain that followed was a menstrual problem—nothing made them change their minds about the medical industry.
~ Toni Morrison
Van Laar wasn't a climate change denier, nor did he talk defensively of the United States' appetite for oil. Rather, he confessed, "I don't give much of a fuck, and nobody I know does, either, because this industry is giving me a future, even if it's a short one and we're all about to toast together.
~ Tony Horwitz
they could not see how the North could be so foolish as to determinedly prevent the extension of Slavery." Doing so would harm industry and commerce—which was all they thought truly mattered in the North. "This was the end of their track.
~ Tony Horwitz
By the end of the 1970s, a clear majority of the employed population of Britain, Germany, France, the Benelux countries, Scandinavia and the Alpine countries worked in the service sector—communications, transport, banking, public administration and the like. Italy, Spain and Ireland were very close behind.
~ Tony Judt
Like large-scale state projects elsewhere, the Cassa was inefficient, and more than a little corrupt. Most of its benefits went to the favored coastal regions; much of the new industry that it brought in was capital-intensive and thus created few jobs.
~ Tony Judt
Also, the realization that fumes from the nitrate of mercury used in the felt-making process affected the nerves of hatmakers and caused their speech to blur and nerves to twitch — hence the term "mad as a hatter" — also helped the public to lose interest.
~ Kevin Callan
There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
~ Kevin Costner
Hollywood and the music industry did everything they could to stop the copying. To no avail. They succeeded only in making enemies of their customers.) Banning the inevitable usually backfires. Prohibition is at best temporary, and in the long run counterproductive.
~ Kevin Kelly
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
~ Kevin Smith
A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated ' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.
~ Kim Alexis
Unlike the capitalist economy which is geared to make money, the socialist independent economy is always aimed at meeting the demands of the country and the people. So an independent economy should naturally be developed in such a multifarious and integral way as to produce independently heavy and light industry goods and agricultural products to make the country rich and powerful and improve the people`s living standard. Such an economy can also develop safely and quickly on a solid basis.
~ Kim Jong Il
There is an entire industry out there that is aimed at making spiritual people feel special—all in return for a fee.
~ Kim Michaels
There is an entire industry aimed at offering you classes or courses that supposedly give you spiritual or psychic abilities or raise your consciousness to a supranormal level.
~ Kim Michaels
The app economy provides an example of a new job ecosystem. It only began in 2008 when Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, let outside developers create applications for the iPhone. By mid-2015, the global app economy was expected to generate over $100 billion in revenues, surpassing the film industry, which has been in existence for over a century.
~ Klaus Schwab
Las empresas capaces de combinar múltiples dimensiones —digital, física y biológica— a menudo son exitosas en generar una disrupción de toda una industria y sus sistemas de producción, distribución y consumo.
~ Klaus Schwab
while AI is busy improving itself, robotics' industry spending is set to exceed $135 billion in 2019, nearly double its 2015 figure.[132] Not only will vehicles lose their drivers, the vehicles themselves are likely to be built by robots, especially since the automotive industry is the number one buyer of automated robots
~ Klaus Schwab
For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
~ Kristen Wiig
The only way you compete, the only way you succeed in competing, the only way you develop a brand, the only you can dominate in an industry is to find a way to add more value for other people's lives than anyone else is adding. —Tony Robbins.
~ Carlos Castillo
Today St. Kitts is the only Leeward Island, of the Caribbean, that still grows sugar cane. However, sugar cane is very expensive to grow, harvest, and process. The fields are now state owned and the entire island crop is processed in one government-run factory. The dozens of sugar plantations, which had dotted the island, climbing from the shore up into the mountains, were gradually abandoned. In time, the handsome stone structures -- complete factories-- fell to wind, weather, and vandalism.
~ Carol Boyle
High-quality pet food is a curious sideline of many chocolate companies.
~ Carol Off
It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.
~ Carol Ryrie Brink
It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.
~ Carol Ryrie Brink
Please then, can we stop this obsession with the tiny minority of writers who have made a fortune from their work, and/or those who look hot in their author pics. Please can we also stop dissolving into factions of the bestselling, the midlist, the self-published, the Hampstead-dwelling, those who like to write cheerful stories and those who prefer to write grim ones. And instead take a proper and considered look at the future of the entire profession of writing.
~ Caroline Sanderson